The Australian National University and the ABC have again joined forces tobreak the world record for the most people simultaneously stargazing. Organisers are hoping 30,000 people will gather at spots acrossthe country. The current World Record, set in 2015 by the ANU, is 7,960 people across 37 ...

Exploring the edge of our solar system - thats the mission of New Horizons. The spacecraft was the first to fly by the planet and the data its sending back overturns what we thought we knew of our galaxy. Alan Stern and David Grinspoon tell us about the science, the politics and the near-misses of that 5 ...

Dark energy is not only terribly important for astronomy, it's the central problem for physics. It's been the bone in our throat for a long time. So says Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg at the University of Texas at Austin. Another Nobel laureate, Brian Schmidt determined the universe is expanding ...

Until recently, black holes were thought to consume already existing material such as stars, and so were not present in the very early universe, Now Alexander Kusenko and physicists at UCLA are suggesting very small black holes were present in the first moments of the universe. The great ...